The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Lights sing like crickets
So you only sit in the dark
And you pull away like racecars
Nobody can get you out
When you laugh, your voice cracks
Only because it's never pure
You may be like gold to me
But you cannot be pure

I watched you flail like a fish
On the end of a line and hook
But I could never keep you in
You just returned to where you were
And we moved so far forwards
But you always turned around
I can't keep up with your speeding thoughts
I couldn't then and I cannot now

I'll keep asking the same questions
Whys, and wheres, and hows?
I'll spend an eternity underneath
The things that weigh me down
No, I can't rid the ghosts that keep me down
There's always something that can keep me down

So I floated through an ocean
Surrendered to all I've met
And while they ran back and forth like a boomerang
I could never catch my breath
And when your lightbulb just went black
I counted the seconds down
Till you found something new
That you could be around

I'm treated like a time bomb
Something that expires
I can never keep you long enough
Before your eyes get tired